Painting Process | Brad Pitt as Mickey O’Neil in Snatch

Introducing piece number two in my kick-ass actors in sweet movies I love series: Brad Pitt as Mickey O’Neil, from Guy Ritchie’s Snatch. This still was taken from the scene where Turkish and Tommy the Tit make a bet with Mickey (right about 2:15 in) over hare coursing. Sadly for the boxing promoters, the hare is not proper fucked.

Get your painting process on to the dope beats created by Nelson Downend, Jr. and Ahmed Mahmoud… aka the Ambershift.

After a snap of the TV Screen, I took the image into my computer and made it look like this. A pallor is important to properly portray pikey.

Getting the outline, making the background limey. Get it? Any time there a fedora is present, it becomes a partial self-portrait. Artist as narcissist, can you believe it?

Collage in shapes… selecting headlines reflecting Brad Pitt’s character in Snatch — fights, difficult to understand, a man experiencing consequence after action; over and over again.

Guy Ritchie directed this fine film, and for this, and this alone, I forgive him for Swept Away. Ah, Swept Away. It’s like a Razzie getting a wedgie from the guy who played Bud on Married With Children.

Dear Payne’s Grey… I love you and your un-black blackness.

Eye, Eye, Mouth captain. We have resemblance.

The digital photo called for bright pink, but the palette begged for something richer, something more, how do they say, Brad Pitt.

The lip is made up of boxers from the olden days… can you guess the painting/artist this scene is from? At this resolution, if you do, I will give you $10. For realsies.

Get that background going. Some of the collage elements are from Guernica. Now, I realize, you may think putting Snatch and Guernica in the same picture, you are asking for trouble. Dangle that modifier.

26 comments

Your art is great, but your politics suck donkey’s ads. I bet ya you come from a family of pigs. Not until you’ve been harassed by cops because of not being white and pepper spray by them by exercising their first amendment rights that you’ll be able to understand how corrupt and fascists they are. For someone who is an artist, you should sympathize with the ows’s plight. But, I guess money and fascism matters to you more than expressing one’s freedom of speech.

Dude, I’m loving what ur saying on the radio!
about the painting: The green collar is visually exciting to me, mainly due to the high density. I’d like to see some more unexpected lines on which you can apply your visual style. You’re setting yourself up.

I love them both (with a slight bias towards Johnny Depp as Hunter Thompson). This looks like the start of another terrific series. I especially like the style, technique, colors…yeah, basically, everything. You never fail to amaze me, my friend… I can’t wait to see what’s next.